In an exclusive interview, the former head of DBS Asset Management talks about her senior relationship management post at the UK bank and what brought her back to the sell-side.
The asset manager wants to add sales staff in Singapore and is readying its China Consumer Fund for the retail market there.
Competition is less fierce in private equity markets in Southeast Asia than in certain other countries, but investing there raises other issues, say general partners.
Soh Chye Guan and Errie Maksum will join as market heads of Singapore/Malaysia and Indonesia, respectively, with four other bankers also coming on board in the Lion City.
The US asset manager plans to exploit Singapore's strength as a wealth-management hub, says Southeast Asia head Piau Lim.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch hires Lim Eng Guan as head of global wealth management for Southeast Asia.
Tan Su Shan, Morgan Stanley's head of private wealth for Southeast Asia, will join the Singaporean bank in July, where she will also oversee asset management.
The Singapore-based Southeast Asia private-equity specialist is looking ahead to a second, bigger fund.
The Dutch asset manager gets the go-ahead for its sustainable private equity fund JV in China and looks set to gain master agent approval for fund distribution in Taiwan. ...
The Swiss boutique private bank poaches UBS Wealth Management's Asia chief investment strategist as its regional co-head of investment solutions and deputy CIO.
Standard & Poor's Fund Services says fundamentals supporting Asian markets remain intact, after low-quality and small-cap stocks lead the second-quarter rally.
Cerulli Associates expects Thailand to continue to hold the biggest share of mutual fund assets in Southeast Asia.
Retail and institutional asset declines in Southeast Asia were 18% and 21% respectively – less than the declines recorded in many neighbouring North Asia countries.
Cerulli Associates expects mutual fund assets in Southeast Asia to grow 17% annually over the next five years, a brisk pace compared to the more developed mutual fund markets ...
Singapore country head Susan Soh says competition is tough in Southeast Asia, as it is for the whole Asian region, and there is a constant need to come up with new products to ...
While more international fund managers are looking to Southeast Asia for expansion, the region will continue to represent a much smaller opportunity compared to North Asia in ...
This is the last in a series of Q&As on Asian fund managers’ investment outlook for 2008.